As soon as Li Yonglong's order was given, the tank troops immediately retreated to the north and returned to the camp, and the Japanese army did not chase and withdrew to their own camp. ”

Shoichi Kumamoto said, "What is new?" ”

Sakuragi Kazuzen hurriedly said, "Magic cannon! ”

Kumamoto frowned and asked, "Magic cannon?" What's that? ”

Kazuzen Sakuragi said: "It is a terrible artillery that is capable of hitting our tanks at high speed!" ”

Kumamoto said angrily, "What? Is there such a thing? ”

Sakuragi said helplessly: "I can't believe that this thing is real, but it just appeared and destroyed our main gun combat vehicle!" ”

Kumamoto Shoichi hurriedly said to Staff Officer Yoshizawa Tadayu, "Hurry up and call the leader of the Technique Squadron." "When the leader of the squadron Inoue Motoxin came, Kumamoto Shoichi said: "The people of Shina have a new 'magic cannon', which can hit targets at high speed, do you know what this kind of thing is?" ”

Inoue Yuanxin thought for a while and said, "Could it be that the people of China used the 'gyroscope' on the main gun?" ”

Kumamoto Shoichi hurriedly asked, "What is a gyroscope?" ”

Inoue Yuanxin said: "I can't say a word or two, the gyroscope is a magical thing, it can be used to stabilize things, this kind of thing has appeared in the Ryukyu Naval Skills Exhibition, it was originally used on naval ships, but I didn't expect it to be used by Lin Yuan on tanks." ”

Kumamoto said angrily: "You all know this kind of thing, then our domestic experts must also know this kind of thing!" Why is this not used in our main artillery tanks? ”

Inoue Motoshin said: "This kind of thing is simple to say, but it is very difficult to manufacture, first of all, the processing accuracy, if the processing accuracy is not high, there will be a large error, and the negative impact on the main gun is greater, and the second is the complex calculation circuit, for these experts in our country are helpless, and there is no basic theory to solve the problem." ”

As soon as Kumamoto heard these words, he slapped the table fiercely, and said angrily: "They once told me before that our main artillery chariot is very advanced, and it is easy to sweep away the main artillery chariot of the Chinese people, and now it seems that those are all deceptive nonsense!" ”

Inoue Motoshin said on the side: "Captain, those people in the weapons factory can't believe it in the first place, and you also know that they do things for money at all, unlike us, for the sake of the military fortune of the Great Japanese Empire for a long time and prosperity for eternity!" ”

Kumamoto waved his hand again and again and said, "Okay, it's useless to talk about this now!" Send a report to General Nogi immediately to report on the situation of the battle here and let him make a decision! ”

Nogi Noshinori received a telegram from Kumamoto Shoichi, and was taken aback when he saw the above description of the performance of China's main artillery chariots, and thought: "I was also deceived by those guys in the arsenal, and they patted their chests and assured me that the main artillery chariots they produced were larger than those of the Shina people, and the barrels were longer than those of the Shina people, and they would definitely be able to defeat the main artillery chariots of the Shina people. ”

Nogi Noshinori couldn't help frowning, and thought to himself, "What should I do now?" The best way to do this is to retreat, but I just rejected Hirobumi Ito's order to retreat, and now retreating is not a slap in the face to myself! Not only me, but the entire military department and the army staff headquarters will be ridiculed by civilian officials, and the naval staff headquarters will even laugh at our army as rice buckets! ”

"No, absolutely not, we must not retreat! The only way now is to hold on, as long as we hold on long enough for Lin Yuan to pay a big enough offensive price, we can force Lin Yuan to accept our conditions! Let's retreat with dignity. ”

Nogi Noshinori made up his mind and immediately sent a telegram to Kumamoto Shoichi, ordering Kumamoto Shoichi to hold out and kill Lin Yuan's troops to the maximum extent to create favorable conditions for negotiations.

Mizuki Nagata went to see Lin Yuan and ate the closed door, at this time Lin Yuan had already decided to fight North Korea, and he didn't care about Mizuki Nagata's peace at all, so Mizuki Nagata, who touched the nail, sent a telegram to Nogi Noshinori, scolding the people for being arrogant and rude, Nogi Noshinori thought helplessly: "This world is like this, whoever is strong can be arrogant!" Weren't we also very arrogant to the people of China? Alas, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, now the people of China are different from before, and maybe no one will dare to call them by the people of China in the future......"

Nogi Noshinori saw that Mizuki Nagata had a disgraced face at Lin Yuan, so he could only pin his hopes on Kumamoto Shoichi's defensive operation, and Lin Yuan also knew very well that if he wanted to attack North Korea, the first step was to knock out Kumamoto Shoichi's main artillery chariot troops, so he ordered Lu Xinghua to step up the attack on Kumamoto Shoichi, and at the same time ordered other troops of the Seventh Division to move to Kaishantun and attack Kumamoto Shoichi.

Lu Xinghua knew very well that in order to annihilate the Japanese army, it was first necessary to lay down the anti-tank trenches outside the Japanese barracks, and the Seventh Division had accumulated sufficient experience in how to deal with the anti-tank trenches when fighting the Qing court, so it sent bulldozer tanks to fill the anti-tank trenches.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of December 28, 20 bulldozer tanks carrying sandbags and other landfills advanced to the Japanese anti-tank trenches.

But just as they were approaching the anti-tank trench, suddenly the sound of artillery sounded on the high ground behind the anti-tank trench!

A shell then exploded next to a bulldozer tank, kicking up a lot of dirt, and the front commander called to Lu Xinghua: "Report to the battalion commander, we have been attacked by the Japanese army!" Enemy artillery appeared on the high ground behind the anti-tank trenches, the exact location is not clear! ”

Lu Xinghua asked: "The specific location is not clear?" What does that mean? How do you do reconnaissance? ”

The front-line commander said: "The Japanese army built barbed wire behind the anti-tank trench, and there were heavy guards, and our scouts could not pass through, so they could not find the prepared position of the Japanese fire point, and the Japanese fire point was obviously camouflaged, and we could not see this position." ”

Lu Xinghua thought to himself: "The caliber of the Japanese artillery is extremely small, only 75 mm, and even if the grenade fired directly hits our bulldozer tank, it will not cause much damage!" So Lu Xinghua decisively ordered: "Ignore the Japanese artillery, continue to fill the trenches, and after filling the trenches, rush over, and the Japanese artillery will be finished." ”

The front-line commander immediately agreed, continued to direct the troops to fill in the anti-tank trenches, and let the shells explode around him, at this moment, suddenly a shell hit a bulldozer tank, only to hear a loud "boom", smoke came out of the tank, the communicator failed for a moment, and the commander immediately understood: the Japanese shells not only hit the tank, but also penetrated the armor!

The commander was full of doubts and thought to himself, "What's going on?" How could Japanese artillery destroy our armor? ”